The Mandriva Security Team published a new security update for Mandriva Linux. Here the announcement:

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2006:140
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : ncompress
Date : August 9, 2006
Affected: 2006.0, Corporate 3.0
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Problem Description:

Tavis Ormandy, of the Google Security Team, discovered that ncompress,
when uncompressing data, performed no bounds checking, which could
allow a specially crafted datastream to underflow a .bss buffer with
attacker controlled data.

Updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1168
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Linux 2006.0:
a1e4fe7d74a1c8e043beb83baec7b34b 2006.0/RPMS/ncompress-4.2.4-28.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
4b87e1b5ba659ce410067b09a75d669e 2006.0/SRPMS/ncompress-4.2.4-28.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2006.0/X86_64:
7ce7f3a618b9c3687936145e2563733a x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/ncompress-4.2.4-28.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
4b87e1b5ba659ce410067b09a75d669e x86_64/2006.0/SRPMS/ncompress-4.2.4-28.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

Corporate 3.0:
30ecc6154bc75783218b82961288b085 corporate/3.0/RPMS/ncompress-4.2.4-28.1.C30mdk.i586.rpm
bda272f060534aa25bebf22ed852f647 corporate/3.0/SRPMS/ncompress-4.2.4-28.1.C30mdk.src.rpm

Corporate 3.0/X86_64:
c9340a5c9bea0316f31fc61f6916f192 x86_64/corporate/3.0/RPMS/ncompress-4.2.4-28.1.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
bda272f060534aa25bebf22ed852f647 x86_64/corporate/3.0/SRPMS/ncompress-4.2.4-28.1.C30mdk.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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